Why is it so hard to be honest? As human beings with even the most basic moral compass, we should all stand with the babies, yes, babies, against their kidnappers. Yet somehow, you use your academic halls to justify the rapists and murderers of the October 7 genocide in Israel.
Let’s be clear: I’m talking about real hostages, infants, women, and young men, kidnapped, burned alive, or executed by Hamas’s terrorist savages. That is not resistance. That is barbarism with a Wi-Fi connection.
And now to the activists in London, Toronto, New York, and Washington: your favorite deflection, the so-called Palestinian “hostages” in prisons. Well, you are partially right. First, the Palestinians in Gaza are indeed hostages of Hamas propaganda. Second, yes... you mean the ones convicted of stabbing elderly women, bombing buses, or plotting school massacres? Sorry to break it to you, they’re not hostages. They’re criminals. And not just any criminals. They are the only ones in the region (Syria, the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon) enjoying full-board treatment: public trials, defense attorneys, endless media attention, gym access, four hot meals a day, and university courses. If that is oppression, then Alcatraz was a wellness retreat.
These men aren’t behind bars because they’re Palestinian. They’re there because they tried to turn playgrounds into graveyards. Unlike the babies snatched from their cribs on October 7, these men walked into evil with eyes wide open.
So spare us your rehearsed outrage and "what about" slogans at your next protest, complete with your IKEA-made keffiyeh and performative guilt. Do not dare show up demanding sympathy for terrorists while the actual hostages haven’t seen the sun in months.
Oh, by the way, the keffiyeh isn’t Palestinian. It’s Iraqi.
The name comes from Kufa, a historic city in Iraq where it was first produced. Worn by Babylonians and Sumerians as early as 3100 BC, the keffiyeh or kufiya was used for protection against the desert, not for political theater.
Even its iconic net-like pattern had meaning. It symbolized fishing nets and trade routes, a tribute to Mesopotamian life and labor, not militant resistance.
Palestinian factions like the PLO and Hamas later appropriated it, using it as a mask during attacks and falsely branding it as their symbol. Ironically, during the Ottoman era, most Palestinian men wore the tarbosh, not the keffiyeh.
So next time you wrap it around your neck at a protest, remember this:
You are not wearing a symbol of liberation.
You are wearing stolen Iraqi heritage.